technology

Zoom meetings are inspiring all kinds of cringe and spontaneous fails. The realm of the Zoom meeting can be a tricky one to navigate. Not everyone understands how it works, and through that wonderful confusion, we get some comedy gems when attempts turned into failures. We're still not over that time that a boss turned herself into a potato during a meeting, and couldn't turn herself back. Now that is beautiful. 

John Pfaff unearthed a true, dazzling gem in his parents' attic. Yes, we're talking about the throwback of all throwbacks, computer. This ancient piece of technology actually looks like it'd be fun to play around with. 

Potato Boss is the hero the world needs and deserves. Seriously, a little gem of light from @PettyClegg, and her (Potato) boss, @mlizetocampo. To make matters even more fun in this wonderfully absurd moment from the struggles of trying to navigate technology, people are getting into the punny wordplay. 

This one goes out to the heroes of every office, school and setting in need of general administration. The computer savvy, the IT people, the tech support and tech workers who know more about computers than everyone else and make Karen from accounting and Dave from sales look like the useless cave people that they are. But honestly, if you know literally anything about computers you'll probably get most of these. For more, here are excruciating moments of tech support gore as well as the story of a tech support worker whose manager threw out 40 computers not knowing what they were.

Someone on AskReddit asked for coders to share the various ways they've gone about turning down the big, million dollar ideas from enthused individuals that can get deluded by their own blinding excitement. Sometimes it's a process of poking holes in the plans, while other times it can work to just take the idea completely seriously, and then watch the "ideas person" slowly melt into the realization that there will be work required of them, in the process of bringing the idea to reality as well. 

This tech support employee decided to implement the element of surprise when dealing with an exasperating customer. We would've loved to have seen the customer's face when the guy exclaimed, "MICE!" in his best stage voice. 

This quick and fun Tumblr thread imagines a fantasy world where the IT guy is working magic to resolve people's technology problems. So many parallels with the real thing. 

Karen is not okay, you guys. She's in the middle of a devastating meltdown regarding a gift of Air Pods to her kid. Apparently, Karen's standards are such that the only acceptable gift for her kid is a pair of the Air Pods Pro. She wants to make sure the other kids at her kid's school are impressed. And she wants this while she uses the Air Pods at yoga, for herself. Nice, Karen. 

This coder decided to take what's been labeled a "nuclear revenge." It sounds like their ex-employer was a nightmare. Apparently, they refused to pay the coder when they went to leave the job, and followed up that refusal with trying to spread a bad and false reputation about them. No good!

Good old auto repair shops are there to pick up the pieces and put them back together, when fails present themselves. The following collection of fails that just rolled into the auto repair shop might serve to remind you that someone else out there could be struggling with an unimaginable kind of automotive issue. 

Those Amazon Echos can get you, man. This couple experienced quite the shocking moment when the husband had unknowingly paired up with the Amazon Echo, while watching a video with Terry Crews in it. While the initial and mysterious booming voice might've been some kind of terrifying, can you imagine if Terry Crews was actually in their kitchen? 

This driver apparently had a 5.0 rating with over 15,000 rides, and Lyft refused to help the guy out after his innocent mistake. Now is an actually reasonable time to ask for the supervisor. All Karen memes aside, this is just some grade A BS.